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Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa has confirmed some more details about the successor to the Nintendo Switch to Nintendo investors, following the announcement that the next-generation hybrid console is set to be unveiled during the current fiscal year.

With no less than five years in the top spot of the global gaming monitor market, of which it currently holds almost 21 percent, Samsung has also managed to get in control of nearly 35 percent of the global OLED monitor market (based on total revenue) in just one year after entering it with the 34-inch Odyssey OLED G8 (G85SB).

Released earlier today, the Nvidia GeForce Game Ready Driver 552.44 update package brings tweaks for Homeworld 3 and Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut (both not launched yet), as well as one-click optimal settings for Content Warning, Manor Lords, No Rest for the Wicked, Gray Zone Warfare, and Outpost: Infinity Siege.

It seems that Anbernic has the Powkiddy RGB30 and ZPG A1 Unicorn in its sights. While the company has only recently presented the RG35XX SP, it seems that the Anbernic RG Cube could be on the verge of becoming official, too.

Epic Games is refreshing its weekly store giveaway. In the last week, the storefront has been offering Cat Quest II and Orcs Must Die! 3 for free. This time, it has decided to reduce Circus Electrique from $19.99 to $0.00, which joins over $100 worth of in-game items for Firestone: Online Idle RPG.

It was recently confirmed that the Asus ROG Ally 2024 will come later this year as a refresh of the popular handheld Windows gaming PC. Now, it seems as though Asus has sneakily teased the ROG Ally 2024 — in black, no less — in a throwaway birthday celebration post on social media.

Hades II has finally launched, with fans eagerly clamouring to get back to the dungeon-crawling indie roguelike inspired by Greek mythology. Within the first 24 hours after Hades II launched, it passed 100,000 concurrent players on Steam alone.

Anbernic has now officially revealed the RG35XX SP, a 3.5-inch gaming handheld modelled after the Game Boy Advance SP. Soon available in multiple colours, the Anbernic RG35XX SP has already been shown to be powerful enough to emulate games from PS1, PSP, N64, and Dreamcast libraries.

Ghostrunner 2 combines parkour with katana carnage. The popular runner is currently 70 percent off on Steam and is therefore available for 12 instead of $ 40. Gamers can even get a 75 percent discount on the Deluxe Edition, which only costs 50 cents more.

With the Fire Vapor Special Edition, Microsoft's Vapor series received a new addition yesterday, which is designed to represent a blazing fire. The controller can be personalized down to the smallest detail and unlocks an exclusive background for the Xbox Series X/S.

The 2024 Lenovo Legion Pro 5i Gen 9 gaming laptop is on sale for more than $800 off the list price. The laptop equips the latest Core i9-14900HX CPU with 24 cores, a 140 W RTX 4070 GPU, and 2 TB of PCIe Gen 4 storage. Based on the internals alone, the laptop should prove to be a commendable mid-range gaming package at a relatively affordable price.

Ayaneo AG01 is the latest GPU dock from the company. It is set to release on May 18 and will come with a starship-like design. There's no word on which graphics card it will pack and the pricing yet.

Remedy Entertainment has confirmed the cancellation of its premium project codename Kestrel, co-financed by Chinese firm Tencent.

The long-awaited action roguelike Hades II was unexpectedly released in Early Access yesterday and seems to have been very well received by players. It already has over 5,000 reviews - 98 percent of them positive.

ASUS has revealed that it will be one of the many exhibitors at next month's Computex 2024 conference in Taipei. Although the company is remaining quiet about the products it will be introducing, a new leak has confirmed that ASUS has prepared the ROG Ally 2024, a refreshed ROG Zephyrus G16, a new Zenbook and its first Qualcomm Snapdragon X-powered laptop.

The PlayStation 5 Pro’s GPU could be even more powerful than the 33.5 TFLOP figure mentioned previously according to the latest leak stemming from Sony’s developer documents. Coupled with more RAM and PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) upscaling, the console could provide enough headroom for developers to target 4K/60 FPS.

Nvidia's flagship GeForce RTX 5090 might not be the first graphics card to launch this year. Prolific leaker Kopite7Kimi says the company could unveil the GeForce RTX 5080 as its first Blackwell-based offering.

Nintendo confirmed it will announce its next-generation Switch model before March 2025. A Nintendo Direct has also been scheduled June, but the event will not reveal any information about the upcoming console.

The Corsair One i500 has just been officially unveiled. The gaming tower has a brand new design for the first time since the launch of the first generation in 2017, creating enough space for a water-cooled GeForce RTX 4090 and an Intel Core i9-14900K.

Sony has recently announced that Helldivers 2 players would need to link their Steam and PlayStation Network accounts to continue playing the game. Since then, the title has received tens of thousands of negative reviews. This massive backlash seems to have caused the publisher to reverse the decision.

Budget smartphone maker Infinix plans to enter the gaming laptop market with the Infinix GT BOOK. It will launch with a mix of last and current-gen hardware and a 16:10 screen.

The ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024) with a Ryzen 9 8945HS CPU and an RTX 4060 laptop GPU is currently down to its lowest price ever. As evident from a 4.6-star user rating and a 93% review score from us, the Zephyrus G14 is one of the best Windows machines available on the market and the discounted price further adds to the value proposition on offer.

High-end RTX 50 laptop GPUs like the RTX 5080 and the RTX 5070/RTX 5070 Ti are finally getting a VRAM increase according to the latest leak from Moore’s Law Is Dead. With the memory and bus-width bump in place, the RTX 5080 will match the RTX 5090.

The Intel Arc Battlemage with the Xe2 architecture is scheduled to come out later this year for both laptops with the Xe2-LPG iGPU inside Lunar Lake APUs and desktops with the Xe2-HPG. However, a new rumor suggests that Intel might have delayed or even outright canceled the Battlemage products.

The 2023 HP Omen 16 with AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS, Nvidia RTX 4060, 16 GB of RAM, and 1 TB of PCIe 4.0 storage has received a massive $500 discount. With this deal in place, you can score it for just $1,099.99, which is a great price for a gaming laptop with such specs.

Acemagic has unveiled the Starship M2A mini PC, which the company claims to be the first of its kind. Touted to be a “AAA” gaming system, it comes with a rather unique-looking chassis that features two wings, four cooling fans, and a dedicated display that offers real-time information on the CPU and GPU.

The lightweight, compact XMG Fusion 15 doesn't come with a conventional screen size: Instead of a 16-inch or 15.6-inch screen, it uses a 15.3-inch panel (2,560 x 1,600 pixels, 240 Hz) with a 16:10 aspect ratio. A Core i9 processor, RTX 4070, Thunderbolt 4 and very good runtimes round out its total package.

V Scooper, a reputable gaming insider known for offering early scoops in the entertainment industry, claims that the next Tomb Raider game will be fully open world. It is said to take place in India and will feature "vast sceneries" and free use of different "traversal methods," enabling Lara to navigate "unrestrictedly" across a "big map."

The Asus ROG Ally 2 (or 2024) will apparently make an appearance at Computex 2024. While details on the new handheld device are still unclear, it could really use an update to the display, controls, and ports, as well as a proper fix for the pesky microSD card issue. Here's what Asus should do, in one writer's humble opinion.

A rumour says Baldur's Gate 3 will be the next AAA game to launch on Apple devices. It may debut on iPadOS and likely iOS sometime in early 2025.

Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II has relatively modest requirements for its PC version. You can get away with a four-generation-old CPU and a three-generation-old GPU and still play the game at 1080p.

Microsoft has released a beta version of its Edge browser with a hard RAM limiter. This setting allows users to set the exact amount of RAM that Edge is allowed to use, helping reduce performance problems when multitasking heavily especially during gaming.

A DIY hardware modder known as YesItsKira has modded the Asus ROG Ally and converted it into a Nintendo 3DS-like gaming handheld. The secondary DIY screen even closes like a clam, just like the classic console.

The latest Lenovo LOQ 15 is on sale, with the maxed-out configuration seeing a hefty 31% discount. With this deal, the gaming laptop with the new Ryzen 7 8845HS, Nvidia RTX 4060, 16 GB of RAM, and 512 GB of PCIe 4.0 storage is currently available at $883.19 on the official store.

The Acer Predator Triton 16 has dropped to its lowest price ever on Amazon after a generous 22% discount. The laptop comes with a 16-inch QHD+ display powered by an RTX 4070 laptop GPU alongside a Core i7-13700H CPU. Additionally, the machine features 1 TB of storage, 16 GB of DDR5 memory, an FHD webcam, and a backlit keyboard with per-key RGB.

Amazon Prime Gaming has a good number of free games lined up for May 2024. Among all of them, Tomb Raider GOTY, Lego Star Wars 3: The Clone Wars, and Chivalry 2 are now up for grabs, with Fallout 3 GOTY and many others set to be available soon.

Sony is adding four games to its gaming subscription in May. Soccer fans will be catered for in May with EA's FC24, cyberpunk fans will be delighted with Ghostrunner 2 and shooter fans will also be in for a treat with the Destiny 2 DLC "Lightfall". Tunic should be particularly appealing to those who enjoy the Zelda game principle.

Resident Evil fans are eagerly awaiting the 9th installment of the game series, which could possibly be an open-world game for the first time. A leaker who is considered credible has now announced a possible release date.

AMD Strix Halo APUs could be available in a range of configurations. From a Strix Halo SKU that rivals the RTX 4070 laptop down to a low-end product with RTX 3050 levels of performance, AMD apparently presented OEMs with four options with up to 16 Zen 5 cores and 40 CUs.

Arrowhead has announced PC players will be required to link their copy of Helldivers 2 with a PSN ID. Players will start seeing mandatory login screens on May 30. If an account isn’t linked by June 4, you might not be able to play the game.

Earlier this year, ASUS hinted that it would release a second-generation gaming handheld in 2024. According to a fresh report, the new model will contain incremental hardware revisions with no APU upgrade in sight.

In an interview with a Chinese news outlet, Hidetaka Miyazaki confirmed the company has no plans to add further content to Elden Ring. In essence, Shadow of the Erdtree will be the only DLC the game ever gets.

CopprLink is a standard intended to enable a high-speed external connection, not just for GPUs. This option should be useful for mini-PCs, laptops, and gaming handhelds, and particularly interesting for professional users.

Lenovo's latest flagship gaming laptop sports top-notch components across the board. Gamers who have set aside $3,000 for a new RTX 4090-equipped notebook might want to take the tempting Legion 9i into consideration.

AMD’s next-generation RDNA 4 GPUs for desktops are expected to launch in the latter half of 2024. The series which can debut without any flagship offerings could bring a big improvement to ray tracing performance as the latest report out of Kepler_L2 alleges that AMD has completely redone RDNA 4 ray tracing.

MIG Switch currently has a monopoly on Nintendo Switch flashcarts. However, it may soon face a rival in the UnlockSwitch. The two are already claiming that both are scam artists, though.

It is now possible to download to new games for free from the Epic Games Store. A week after discounting the INDUSTRIA and LISA: Definitive Edition, Epic Games has applied the same treatment to Cat Quest II and Orcs Must Die! 3, which would normally cost $44.98.